Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms
by nradov on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:53PM
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In legal terms "dumping" is only applicable to imports. There's generally nothing illegal about delivering a local service at a loss, except in limited cases when one company has an effective monopoly and uses that pricing to drive out competitors. For now the food delivery market is still highly competitive.
Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms
by kqvamxurcagg on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:16PM
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I don't think existing competition law or theory applies to this new phenomenon. The delivery companies are essentially selling at a loss to obtain an overwhelming network effect to become a long term monopoly.
Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms
by bagacrap on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:26AM
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in this case, Uber eats is importing foreign capital and "dumping" it into the system as subsidies to the consumer which are designed to establish a monopoly. They will either fail to establish a monopoly and close shop, or succeed and jack up prices. Whatever term you want to apply here, this doesn't seem like a business practice that should be permitted.
Other comments mention that delivery "worked fine" before, which implies DoorDash can't argue that they were perfectly innovative against a "dumping" accusation.